Malcolm Lutu and Pono Shim are two Hawaiian men who are now as close as brothers. This, after Pono donated a kidney to give Malcolm a second chance at life. They are now on a mission: to get people tested for kidney disease... And to get living donors. 6:13 IT'S SUCH AN EPIDEMIC AND I'VE SEEN IT FIRST HAND FROM WHEN I STARTED DIALYSIS . Malcolm Lutu and Pono Shim are on a mission--- to get people tested for kidney disease. And to get healthy people to donate a kidney. This after Pono did just that... Donating a kidney to Malcolm . GLENN 57:10-57:24 THERE'S CLOSE TO THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN HAWAII ON DIALYSIS. I THINK BACK WHEN I FIRST STARTED IN 1995 .. THERE WERE LESS THAN 1000. According to the National Kidney foundation ..... Chronic kidney disease affects more than 160- thousand people in Hawaii. that's 30 percent higher than the national average. Native Hawaiians and Polynesians are at the highest risk....But it also strikes Filipinos and Japanese in high numbers. ---------------------- ------- GLENN 1:03:10-:19 YOU KNOW, FOR WHATEVER REASON OUR WESTER LIFESTYLE JUST DOESN'T MATCH WELL WITH GENETICS. ---------------------- ------- Diabetes is by far the most common cause.. also high blood pressure and as in malcolms case genetics .... But also: abuse of simple pain killers like advil and motrin. Malcolm's doctors first detected protein in his urine in the 1990's but it was explainable: he was a strong man competitor lifting crazy weights. The protein returned in 2003--- even after he retired from competition. Doctors monitored him and in 2008 they told him he had stage 4 kidney disease--- with his kidneys only functioning at 8 percent. MAL 9;14-=9:39 I NEVER HAD SIGNS I NEVER HAD SYMPTOMS I WAS STILL DOING WHAT I USED TO DO IT JUST HAPPENED. SO PEOPLE DONT KNOW THEY GOT TO GET TESTED. A SIMPLE URINE TEST WITH YOUR DOCTOR CAN SAVE YOU ALOT OF HUMBUG AFTER. 27:53-58 PONO- PEOPLE SHOULD GET TESTED TO FIND OUT NOT ONLY IF YOURE NOT WELL, BUT TO FIND OUT IF YOU ARE WELL. 450 people in Hawaii are on the waiting list for kidney transplants. And transplant officials say living donors are the best: 1:08:08-1:08:31 IN GENERAL A PATIENT WHO RECEIVES A LIVING DONOR KIDNEY THEY WILL TEND TO HAVE NOT AS MANY POTENTIAL COMPLICATION S AS OPPOSED TO A DECEASED DONAOR :17 DUE TO THE FACT THAT ITS OUT OF the BODY. WE CALL IT COLD TIME. SO THERE'S NOT AS MUCH RISH OF AS MANY COMPLICATION S FROM TI BEING COLD. But in recent years Hawaii donors have been reluctant to come forward. In the last four years only 28 living donor transplants took place here. Hayashida thinks a lot of momentum was lost with the closure of HMC West--- He is hopeful it will return now that QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER has taken over the transplants. The kidney foundations hope: that more healthy people will make that choice...... after learning there is no real change living with one less kidney. 12:13-12;21 anthony THE RISK OF GOING INTO RENAL FAILURE AFTER DONATING IS NO DIFFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER PEROSN IN THE POPULATION. And Pono is proof: 33:39 pono-43 I don't HAVE KIDNEY DISEASE. I HAVE ONE KIDNEY. And then there's the gift. Of seeing children --- and grandchildren grow up. Growing old with the one you love. ---------------------- ----- 10:31-10:36 IT THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT OF A LIFETIME, YEAH! For information on Kidney Disease and donations... Check out the as seen on section of KITV.com. We've got a link to the National Kidney Foundation Hawaii. If you are thinking about becoming a kidney donor... Pono is very willing to meet with you and walk you through it. You can email me at pakana@kitv.com I'll get

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